Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-26

Mr.. B. B. Groom, Paabaudle stock
man, who has been in the city for the
past four days, left for home yesterday.
Judge DaraeH Of the Kit Carson Cattle
ComUsay was asked yesterday by g re-
porter what the cattlemen of Texas were
doing shout the American Cattle Trust.
"Tntv yai1k ousvsry little about it," he
replied.
"Does it amount to anything, in your
own estimatiOn?"
at is good thing for those who got
in on the ground floor, bat new hands
have no business with it.''
Ethan Brooks has q good idea Of the
kind of horse thst buyers swant and
raisers should endeavor to furnish.
What we want to raise, said he, must
be horse of good size and proportions.
A short body, broad, deep chest. With
loin and hips in proportion, legs medium
Ingth, full and tsperlng down to the
kiee and gsmbrel joints, aid short,
fat and strong below these joints,
making the legs perfect levers; feet
strong and sound Quot too large,) and
well under the legs. Mary g horse
with fine body is Of little value because
his legs Sre not equal 30 his body. The
neck should be set On so SIS TO carry the
1ead high, the mead fine, broad
between the eyes, showing intellI-
gence, with a full nostrl. Such
horse, from the nature of his construc-
ton, has good cotton and the powers of
endurance. Such horse will sell readily
for his full value, while another horse
must be shown repeatedly, and
the desirable qualities must be
made so prominent that objection
able points will be overlooked.
Mr.. P. Stevens of the Syndicate ranch
was in the city yesterday. He says the
range of the company was in good con-
ditiOn with the exception Of the southern
part, where rain has not fallen sufficient
TO make good grass, nor ia there enough
water there for all purposes,
Il is not thought though
that there will be much
loss of cattle this winter if it be not an
exceptionally hard season. The Capitol
Syndicate is not shipping any stock this
fall. They have not sent any 20 market
since the middle Of September, when they
turned back large herd OF beer cattle
which they were about 10 ship on account
Of the low prices prevailing. The syndi-
care hss bought altogether the last year
$4,000 head Of cattle. They intend get
ting q great many more ones and twos
next spring. The losses by drouth by the
syndicate last year haYe been greatly
oYerst1ted, said Mr.. Stephens, for, in
stead II 5000 or TO- 900 head,ss the papers
throughout the country variously esti
mated it, the deaths were just 1872 mead,
SEa6 h
want Of water, but by bad management.
Meantime the Globe Democrat points
out, while cattlemen have been falling
and the prices offered have been steadily
declining, the butchers have gone On Sc
renely buying beef st the low figures pre-
vsiling, and selling at the hign prices
they charged four years ago. Their
prices sre no lower now than they
were when cattle sold ct $50
head. The dressed beef companies csn
buy cattle at such low prices that they
can sell it at wholesale for 25c. q pound,
and the butcher buys at the same p. ices.
Not ole of the 500 butchers in St. Louis
will sell beef at less than 1910. a pound,
and much of it is sold at zoe. A butcher
csn buy good beef steer for SIS at the
present prices. It will weigh dressed 400
pounds at the least He will sell that a.
Sn average price of 121c., which will give
MIN $50, or clear profit of $40 On every
head that he sells to his customers. It is
small wonder that the butchers, making
such enormous profits, hate the dressed
beef companies who sre establishing retail
shops and IN 'erselling them. But it is
through the dressed beef companies only
that the consumer of beef can obtain the
~, - y,1
are driving the stOckmen out of the bust
ness and making beef re'lly the cheapest
meat On the market.
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Colonel Carey w. Styles was in Fort
Worth l9st night on his way TO Waco
after trip through the Panhandle to the
end oG the Fort Worth and Denver Rail
road. Colonel Styles speaks of the cattle
interests up there in q far less hopeful
way than the msjority of those whom
THE GAZETTE has questioned regarding
the outlook of the cattlemen. He went
to some pains while out there TO
ascertain the feeling of the stock
rsisers, and says hey are very gloomy
over the condition Of their business, have
no faith in better prices in the spring, for
the rsise in prices that would be neces-
sary to put cattle raising on profitable
basis is altogether too much to be at all
probable. There is no doubt. Colonel
Styles said, that the big range system is
failure. When grass was free and the
csttlemsn had but to leave his cattle
alone and sell his incIaase,
he made money, but now, what with taxes,
rent, interest, building fences, digging
for water, ard line riding, the increase
was esten up IN expenses, and to keep up
the herd the owner has to go down in his
pocket end buy. Mr.. Somerville of the
M&tsdor Land and Cattle Company is con-
sideriug the ACCESSIBILITY of establishing
farms inside his ranch, opening up
system OF irrigAtiDg bitches and putting
lot of farmers in who will
be given water and farm rent free and
paid salaries to look after the ccmpang's
sscck. They will also be expected to
raise feed to support the cattle through
the winter. This is the only way the
Panhandle stockman now sees to hold up
his business, says Colonel Styles.
Snow fell in the more remote sections
of the Panhandle last Wednesday night,
which will make 1t rather hard on the